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New land regulations add, subtract homes
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ibly similar between the current regulations and their predecessor — it’s a “net zero” difference he A quick browse of real estate said, but not in the energy sense. for sale in South Burlington turns Rather, the major differences are up 12 houses on Zillow with open in where the units could be built floor plans, breakfast bars, hard- and in what arrangement. A zoning change would affect wood floors and views of the Adirondacks. Cheapest among some housing in the southeast them is a $202,000 condo and quadrant. Conner’s department priciest is a three-bedroom for estimates that the city’s old regu$795,000 — the average price is lations would have allowed for 1,180 houses to about $588,000. be built in that A rogue listing “So, while it is a part of the city if with a $179,000 developers used price tag makes difference of about the maximum your heart flutter allowances in a moment until 300 between those the zoning. But you realize it’s this isn’t exacta plot of empty two, I’m not sure it’s ly a realistic land, sans house, that was recently an actual difference.” number, Conner said, as it does cut in price from account for $353,000. — Paul Conner, not natural resourcHousing. It’s one of the director of planning es in the area, which would hottest topics in restrict where Vermont as the and zoning developers could state’s affordable housing crisis has become stark- build and how many units. The estimate also ignores the er throughout the coronavirus pandemic, and in South Burling- history and layout of neighborton where the local market has hoods. A lot might be zoned to climbed upward, egged on by a have four homes per acre, but recent reappraisal that bumped many only have two or three — property values up 27 percent on how likely is it that a property owner would tear down those average. existing homes to fit four on the By hot, that means scalding. South Burlington’s land devel- lot? In the same area, accountopment regulations, which have been revised over three-plus years ing for those variables as well and were approved in a landmark as natural resources like forests, moment for the city Monday wetlands and streams, officials night, have stirred the housing estimate that 834 units could realpot, making many people ques- istically be built under the newly tion whether the new regs will approved regulations. “So, while it is a difference help or hurt the crisis. According to Paul Conner, of about 300 between those two, South Burlington’s director of I’m not sure it’s an actual differplanning and zoning, the total ence,” Conner said, since the potential number of houses that could be built in the city is incredSee REGULATIONS on page 2 AVALON STYLES-ASHLEY STAFF WRITER
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All three South Burlington High School cheerleading teams — youth, middle school and high school — took first place in the NVAC Cheerleading Competition on Saturday Feb. 5 in South Burlington. The teams are coached by Lynn Kynoch, an assistant in the school’s student activities and special education departments.
SB businessman denies drug charges State’s attorney reduces felonies to misdemeanors, seeks no conditions MIKE DONOGHUE CORRESPONDENT
A South Burlington businessman who owns a home that has been the site of several serious drug overdoses since March — including two deaths — has pleaded not guilty in Vermont Superior Court to four misdemeanor counts of illegal possession of drugs. South Burlington Police said they asked county prosecutors to file more serious charges against Bruce Erdmann, 62, of Swift
Street, due to all the findings of a lengthy criminal investigation. But the office of Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George opted not to pursue two felony charges for illegal distribution of cocaine that led to a serious overdose for a woman last March and possession of methamphetamine in June, records show. George’s office instead filed four misdemeanor charges for knowingly and unlawfully possessing clonazepam, methamphetamines, methylphenidate and
alprazolam, all on June 29. Each charge, upon conviction, carries up to one year in prison and up to a $2,000 fine. Erdmann, whose father was a prominent Burlington lawyer, is listed as the president of BluePrints etc. on Farrell Street in South Burlington. George’s office also thought Erdmann could be released back into the community without any conditions or restrictions on his See ERDMANN on page 16
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It’s official: City council passes new development regs AVALON STYLES-ASHLEY STAFF WRITER
South Burlington’s new land development regulations, which balloon protections for the environment and remold various planning tools, are officially on the books. Many of the new environmen-
tal protections supersede state requirements, a point that has stoked both praise and vexation in the community, while other new rules alter development opportunity around the city, causing some landowners to threaten lawsuits and others to malign the regulations as aggravating the housing crisis, although officials
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bors generally agree on mutual values. How to tackle the issues, and which is a higher priority? That’s where the camps diverge. City councilors Thomas Chittenden and Matt Cota, who both voted against the regulations, argued that the proposed changes reduce the amount of potential affordable housing in the city, where South Burlington’s unique location near Burlington and availability of municipal sewer, water and broadband infrastructure makes it the perfect place for more dense housing stock. “We need to make space for
neighbors, for people across all economic spectrums to be able to live in our city, so we’re not an exclusive, ritzy suburb, that we’re inviting all people to our city. We can’t do that unless we have affordable housing,” Cota said. Councilors Tim Barritt, Meaghan Emery and chair Helen Riehle voted in favor. The planning commission will continue work to revise regulations governing planned unit developments and hope to deliver their proposed changes to the city council by early spring.
are buildable under both sets of regulations. Across the city, roughly 550-575 new dwelling units are at some stage with the development review board, with a majority being built by the O’Brien Brothers. Another 360 units, with over half in City Center, have final approval but aren’t yet permitted. In 2021, the city issued permits for 244 new dwelling units across the city, some going up on Garden Street, others on Quarry Hill Road and Shelburne Road. The city’s committees on affordable housing and economic development have spoken out against certain aspects of the new regulations in the last year,
arguing that they will negatively impact housing stock. While affordable housing committee members have applauded boosts to inclusionary zoning in the new regulations, which increase the number of perpetually affordable units city-wide, the committee passed a resolution in October arguing against zoning changes in the southeast quadrant and other new requirements. Economic development committee members also argued that the new regulations erode the city’s property tax base and will negatively impact future upgrades to city facilities and schools, in a resolution passed last month. “We really don’t know, will it long-term raise our taxes? Will it suppress housing or increase the cost of housing? All these things, we just don’t know. It’s a pretty big change, that’s for sure,” committee member John Burton said. He hoped to conduct an economic impact study of the regulations to gauge some answers before the regulations were officially adopted, but the ship sailed on that Monday night. The committee discussed next steps at a meeting Tuesday after press time, but Burton said he still believes that “solid data” is needed. “We cannot go by gut alone,” he said.
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have stated that the number of potential homes will remain relatively static. City council approved the new land regulations Monday night, echoing this divide in a 3-2 split vote, in a landmark moment for the city following three years of interim zoning and a whirlwind of divisive public feedback as the timer ticked and the planning commission rushed to finish edits by its deadline last fall. While community fractures have seemingly cast affordable housing in a match against the environment, it also seems neigh-
two numbers are like comparing apples with potatoes. That difference, even if it’s realistically less than it appears on paper, includes 300-500 units being added thanks to a change in zoning in another part of town. A district west of Hinesburg Road and south of Interstate 89, currently zoned for industrial development and open space, has changed to residential, bumping the maximum number of homes from one per three acres to 6-12 units per one acre. That’s a jump from 35 homes formerly zoned to 300-500, depending on how arrangements are built. Overall, without accounting for the apples to potatoes comparison, a similar number of houses
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A heartfelt ‘bah humbug’ for a non-Valentine’s Day lover never intended for us to gorge on sappy sentiments. This third century saint was all about bees. Carole Vasta Folley Apparently, he was awarded the title Patron Saint of Beekeeping Valentine’s Day is ausgesafter St. Francis was controverpielt. Sorry, but it’s really my sially named Patron Saint of ALL favorite synonym for a past-tense Animals. Upon appeal, f-bomb. Ausgespielt, as they let Valentine have in “done, played out!” bees, you know, to Or in more common avoid a whole brouhaha. German vernacular, History is quite Valentine’s Day is sketchy on this as there kuchen! Wait a minute, were two St. Valentines. that’s coffee cake. I What do they have in meant, kaput! common besides honey Name one person and EpiPens? Officiwho loves Valentine’s ating secret weddings. Day. Someone who Well, that, and they earnestly looks forward Carole Vasta Folley were both beheaded. to the middle of FebruNot very romantic. ary as some hallowed Some suggest the origin of signal to celebrate love. Frankly, as holidays go, it might even rank Valentine’s Day is an ancient Roman festival that celebrates under Columbus Day, which is spring. Now, that’s something I saying something. could get behind. On Valentine’s That’s OK. St. Valentine
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Day, Vermonters could rejoice in only six more weeks of arctic temperatures. I was just about to cut some red paper hearts when I learned that said festival included pairing off women with men — wait for it — by lottery. Again, not very romantic. Maybe I have a jaded heart. If so, I came by it honestly as the Valentine’s Day indoctrination began in preschool. Up until sixth grade, the annual ordeal began with my mother buying packages of valentines for seven children. I don’t know where she found the money, but it does explain the frequent Campbell soup dinners. Thanks a lot Mr. St. Valentine. And just try to pick the right valentine for a classroom of bullies. For God’s sake, these kids weren’t nice to me on a daily basis, why was it normalized for me to give them a love note? And which ones to pick? Was Scooby
Doo really the message I wanted to send or dare I select cards with puppies that shout, “Doggone it, be mine!” Then ensued prepubescent anxiety on steroids. Would I get a valentine in return? These Hunger Games finally ended in fourth grade when the school instituted a rule where everyone had to give a valentine to everyone. The irony escaped my 9-year-old self as I was too focused sucking the words “Be Mine” off a chalky candy heart. As I grew older, Valentine’s Day morphed into some societally desired proof that I was lovable. If I was in a relationship and didn’t get a card, the horror! Or worse, when sweetheart-less and every kiss begins with Kay, being alone felt like I was a leper in “Ben Hur.” Even when deliciously in love and gifted with valentines, they
felt obligatory. Like that prostate exam, which I’m sure wasn’t top of his list. Was he really inspired to get me a card? Flowers? Chocolates? Why not make the gift more useful? How about a Valentine’s Day oil change? Or if you really loved me, you’d unload the dishwasher. Listen, if you’re a Valentine’s Day lover, don’t let me squash your beating heart. Have at it. By no means are you alone. This year, 145 million Valentine’s Day cards will be sent. Phew, that’s a lot of cards to deliver. Maybe I’ll buy just one and hand it to my postal carrier. These days, she could use some love. Carole Vasta Folley is a Vermont award winning playwright and columnist. Contact her at carolevf.com.
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Directed patrols: 33 Car crashes (property damage): 14 Public assists: 13 Traffic stops: 12 Disturbances: 10 Agency assists: 9 Welfare checks: 9 Winter parking bans: 3 Missing person: 1 Incidents: Jan. 31 at 11:09 a.m., an officer conducted a traffic stop near Patchen and Landfill roads. Jan. 31 at 4:49 p.m., someone reported a juvenile runaway from Dorset Street. Feb. 1 at 10:37 a.m., an officer checked on the wellbeing of someone on Dorset Street. Feb. 1 between 4:46 and 5:21 p.m., police responded to three different reports of cars leaving the scene of accidents on Airport Road, Dorset Street and the intersection of Williston Road and White Street. Feb. 2 at 9:19 p.m., officers investigated a case of unlawful mischief and vandalism on Swift Street. Feb. 2 at 2:16 p.m., police responded to a case of retail theft on Shelburne Road. Feb. 3 at 6:20 a.m., police investigated a suspicious event on Ethan Allen Drive.
Feb. 3 at 4:46 p.m., police investigated a report of larceny on Lime Kiln Road. Feb. 4 at 4:04 a.m., an officer assisted the public on Commerce Avenue. Feb. 4 at 5:53 p.m., an officer conducted a traffic stop on Kennedy Drive and Kimball Avenue. Feb. 5 at 8:03 a.m., a car crash involving property damage, but no injuries occurred on Hinesburg Road. Feb. 5 at 1:10 p.m., an alarm was tripped on Rye Circle. Feb. 6 at 1:25 p.m., police assisted with a custody issue at the station. Feb. 6 at 4:29 p.m., police trespassed an individual from Al’s French Frys. Arrests: Michael D. Babits, 32, of Burlington, was arrested Jan. 31 for making false pretenses. Joey W. Sears, 41, of Milton, was arrested Feb. 1 with domestic assault. Note: Charges filed by police are subject to review by the State’s Attorney’s Office and can be amended or dropped. The incidents above are not a full recount of police activity, rather a highlight of some of the events that occurred.
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To the Editor: I’m writing in support of reelecting Meaghan Emery and Tim Barritt for the 2022 city council election on Tuesday, March 1. Through these times of uncertainty and great challenge, both have shown steadfast, kind and thoughtful leadership for our growing city. They’ve worked as a team with other leaders and services by involving multiple stakeholders and perspectives on issues that matter to South Burlingtonians. I think the way they’ve worked to build bridges is especially important in protecting our democratic processes — the processes that ultimately protect our freedom as individuals. I think now is the time to build on what’s been done to meet our city’s goals, and Barritt and Emery are the right people to do that for South Burlington.
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To the Editor: South Burlington has been given a rare opportunity. We can elect Chris Trombly, one of Vermont’s most objective and effective rising leaders, to our city council. A life-long Vermonter, Trombly has a unique commitment to listening to every voice among us. In his professional and volunteer work, he has expertly honed the skills needed to represent our community and see the broad implications of local decisions. Although I write this solely as a proud 20-year South Burlington resident, I’ve been extremely fortunate to work directly with Trombly on the city’s affordable housing committee, which he chairs, and professionally where we both work to help to meet the needs of Vermonters facing financial challenges. I encourage you to meet Chris Trombly to discuss your dreams for South Burlington and to join me in voting for him for city council.
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I first met Emery when she was campaigning door to door for city council in 2008. A few years later I had the privilege of serving on the city council with her. She is a fierce competitor who does what she thinks is right and stands by what she does. Perhaps I’d still be on the council if I had followed her lead. Every two years the business community and developers try to defeat her and every two years she prevails. She will again this year. I know Barritt as a neighbor in the Eastwoods neighborhood. He was active in defending our neighborhood from the developers who built the condos and apartments behind Shaw’s grocery store.When I was elected to city council in 2011, I encouraged Barritt to join the development review board. He did so and eventually became chair of the board before being elected to the council himself six years ago. He’s been an able and steadfast councilor. Even though he has moved to Cider Mill he deserves our vote for re-election.
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Emery always does her homework on council To the Editor: I am writing to ask the voters of South Burlington to re-elect Meaghan Emery to another term as a member of the city council. Emery has served on the council for many years and has served us well. As is the case of every public servant, she has at times been at the center of controversy. That’s a positive. Thoughtful disagreement leads to good council decisions. Emery has consistently supported affordable housing and economic development. She is passionate about the environment. She is, however, a pragmatist, one who thoroughly researches a subject before voting. We need her continued presence on city council. Vote for Meaghan Emery on March 1. Bob Walsh South Burlington
Reelect city councilor Meaghan Emery To the Editor: Not so long ago, Market Street was a moonscape of potholes. For decades, we talked of the possibilities. Meaghan Emery had the vision and leadership to help change the potholes to a vital, functioning part of our city. It now has a public library and municipal center open to all, affordable and middle-income residential housing and attractive ponds and parks. Emery is willing to listen, has a clear head and brings passion to issues she See LETTERS on page 6
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continued from page 5 believes in. She is a hard worker with South Burlington’s well-being and future at heart. This is true for City Center, the Chamberlin neighborhood where she resides, and all city residents. Join me in voting for Meaghan Emery for South Burlington City Council. Loretta Marriott South Burlington
Council chair lends support to Emery To the Editor: South Burlington is very lucky to have a wide range of energetic, innovative and engaged citizens interested in making South Burlington a wonderful place to live, work and play. Meaghan Emery is one of our stars in this department. After serving with her for 8-plus years on the city council,
I can emphatically say she is an incredible asset to the work of leading the city. She always comes prepared to engage and share new ideas and approaches. She is innovative and passionate. She is dedicated to getting the most value for the taxpayers’ money, asking the hard questions and making the sometimes difficult decisions to resist spending your money. Your needs and capacity to support the services of the city are always foremost in her mind. I find her delightful to work with, even when we differ on an issue. Emery does her homework. She undertakes research on almost every issue as she works to understand and arrive at the best possible policy decisions for our community. Her sincere value for the environment as well as clear-eyed understanding and appreciation for housing, growth, recreation and city services is an
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important value to our city. She has the enviable capacity to balance all these needs and move forward with excellent policy decisions. She is progressive, thoughtful, reasonable and truly dedicated. I can’t think of a more qualified and dedicated public servant than Meaghan Emery. Join me in voting for Emery for city council. We need her to keep the city moving in the right direction. Helen Riehle Chair South Burlington City Council
Fair policing policy helped by Emery’s input To the Editor: I have known Meaghan Emery for more than 20 years. She has served as a thoughtful, principled and caring leader in South Burlington. She doesn’t just sit on the
city council and vote on proposals brought before her. She helps South Burlington residents and others to actively participate as citizens by supporting their efforts on behalf of the community. For several years, a group of citizens concerned about improving South Burlington’s fair and impartial policing policy have worked with our police chief to ensure that all those in our community, both citizens and noncitizens, would be treated fairly and respectfully by the department. We wanted to protect undocumented migrant workers from being turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for possible deportation. This is an issue dear to Emery’s heart. However, she did not try to impose her views on our citizen’s committee. Instead, she helped us submit the resolution we were crafting to the council and then
forcefully advocated on our behalf when the time came for vote. Thanks in part to Emery, the revised South Burlington fair and impartial policing policy proposal received unanimous support from the council. We need city councilors who care about the rights of all members of our community and are respectful of the views of South Burlington residents. Meaghan Emery is such a person. David Shiman South Burlington
Reasons to favor Emery for council To the Editor: There are many things I like about Meaghan Emery’s candidacy for South Burlington City Council. See LETTERS on page 7
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continued from page 6 I like her experience and all she has learned being on the council; it would be a shame to squander that experience and that grounding on the issues. She considers the many facets of the complicated issues that come before the council. She is not beholden to specific constituencies. She makes decisions independently on a principled basis, always after thorough personal research and reading. She cares about people on a personal level. She has seemingly boundless energy for listening to the citizens and getting back to them when they reach out to her. She was — and is — a vigorous supporter of the City Center project, the new city hall and library. She understands the need to focus future home building in areas appropriate to it, such as City Center, and to focus it largely on more affordable options. She fully understands the enormity of the climate change challenge before us, and our responsibilities in South Burlington to protect the natural resources that will help us weather the challenges ahead. She also believes that people need open spaces for recreation and well-being. Without protecting our natural resources, not much else will matter in the end. She supports the new land development regulations created by the hard work of many over three years. It is time to pass them. I appreciate her vote for the Paris Climate Agreement and her support for public parks and recreation paths and energy efficiency efforts within the city. Sarah Dopp South Burlington
Emery balances competing city needs To the Editor: I am writing in support of Meaghan Emery’s reelection to the South Burlington City Council. Over the years, I have appreciated Emery’s extensive research and preparation when issues come before the council. She often brings a different perspective to discussions — one supportive of affordable housing, climate change mitigation, equity and economic development efforts within the city. I also appreciate the fact that she lives in the northwest side of town and brings that neighborhood’s perspective to the council. The city is currently wrestling with the complex issues surrounding proposed land development regulations and I believe that Emery will balance the competing environmental, affordable housing, landowner rights and resident quality-of-life issues involved. Please join me in voting for Meaghan Emery. Bob Britt South Burlington
Losing Emery would be an immeasurable loss To the Editor: Because I have attended multiple South Burlington City Council meetings over the past couple of years, I have become quite familiar with individual councilors, their
votes and their knowledge. I have found Meaghan Emery to be a topnotch councilor. She researches the issues, forwards initiatives that support her ideas, using sound reasoning when it comes to those she thinks will strongly benefit South Burlington. The council deals with a broad variety of issues. A few of the more recent ones being this year’s city budget, climate change mitigation, the revision of the land development regulations and affordable housing. The decisions the council makes are key to the future of our city. Some of Emery’s initiatives and supportive votes include advocating for affordable housing, expansion of inclusionary zoning and the creation of the affordable housing trust fund. She has been actively supportive of Penny for Paths, participated on the open space committee during interim zoning, the committee which identified South Burlington land parcels that are critical to conserve for purposes of mitigating climate change. Emery was active in the creation of the climate action task force. In my observation, she is deeply dedicated to the quality of life in South Burlington and to the welfare of all of us no matter what our color, persuasion or beliefs. In carrying out her duties, she is fair, respectful and open-minded. I urge you to study her record and her actions. To lose her presence on city council would be an immeasurable loss. Karen Ryder South Burlington
Emery balances community, business interests To the Editor: As a longtime resident of South Burlington and someone who participates in community in various capacities, I feel strongly about supporting Meaghan Emery in her quest for renewal of her city council seat. Emery lives in the Chamberlain neighborhood where I live and is an advocate for this part of South Burlington, as well as for the city as a whole. She’s not afraid to speak out in support of hard issues that impact all of us, not just in my part of town. She always works to balance community interest with business interests and has climate and quality of life at the forefront of her thinking and her decision-making. There has been a lot of misinformation put out of late, suggesting that she’s not in support of affordable housing or of the needs of those with lower incomes. Nothing could be further from the truth. As one who lives in the more affordable part of South Burlington, I am always confident that she will advocate for me and for my neighbors. Living on a fixed income, I know I can share concerns with her, and she will do what she can in her capacity to help. In other words, she’s not a mouthpiece for anyone but someone who does what she says she’ll do. Support Emery in her run for re-election to her two-year seat on South Burlington City Council. She will continue to devote herself to us and what we need, from See LETTERS on page 8
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continued from page 7 weighing airport encroachment and protecting wetlands and forests to allowing the building of affordable housing and strengthening the business interests in our fine city. It’s not by accident that we have reasonable growth and change in our city. It is because of thoughtful and even inspirational people like Emery serving on city council. Carmine J. Sargent South Burlington
Emery has right approach on city’s growth To the Editor: What I love about Vermont is our commitment to quality of life: protecting our environment, nurturing our children, improving our schools, helping everyone thrive and creating a sustainable future for the next generation to enjoy.
Meaghan Emery has brought perspective and experience to the South Burlington City Council since 2008, with a two-year break and time to reflect from 2012 to 2014. There is no doubt that she, along with many candidates, is committed to working hard for the residents of South Burlington. However, I also know that Emery will always listen to and involve the citizens of South Burlington, ask the difficult questions and not be afraid to debate while bringing transparency and accountability to the table with such clarity and diplomacy. Emery is mindful of how budgetary decisions impact residents. She is interested in growth and improvements to our community and daily lives that make sense and are sustainable, not growth that will make living in South Burlington less desirable or unaffordable. She advocates to
protect our natural areas, improve our city services and improve working conditions for all the South Burlington employees who keep our infrastructure running smoothly. I fully support Meaghan Emery for another term on city council. Tricia Gustafson South Burlington
Emery provides thoughtful approach to planning To the Editor: Recent press about the South Burlington City Council race creates the sense there is only one choice: the environment and open space or more housing development. As I read some candidate support statements, I was reminded of an old song, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” Somehow that doesn’t seem the
answer to this complex situation. Meaghan Emery has demonstrated willingness to seek solutions that allow competing demands to work in tandem. She does this with the lens of a homeowner outside the southeast quadrant. I am discouraged by those who would pit housing affordability against environmental responsibility, much less claim development will focus on affordable housing. Emery consistently tries to balance these two issues. Development advocates see their position as the answer with only tacit regard for the environment and climate change, much less the fact most new developments barely create truly affordable housing. How are the homes built of late with starting prices in the mid-tohigh $400,000 range affordable for families seeking their first home? Emery advocates for standards that allow middle-income families the
possibility of home ownership. Modest-sized homes, hopefully with solar-ready roofs, provide an opportunity for more families. She supports a balance of housing density and affordability that creates access for more families, using the buildable land more efficiently and protecting the natural areas. Emery is the only city councilor living outside the southeast quadrant. Her support for open space can never be called NIMBYism — not in my backyard. She advocated for expansion of inclusionary zoning and creation of the affordable housing trust fund. She links open space resource protection with the challenges of climate change, supporting development that allows building and, at the same time, protects wildlife areas. Emery is more than a single-isSee LETTERS on page 9
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continued from page 8 sue candidate. She advocated for actions that make our community a better place to live including Penny for Paths, creation of the Climate Action Task Force, and South Burlington’s fair and impartial policing policy. Her priority is to keep South Burlington a great place for all people to live, work and play. She listens to community concerns, ever an advocate for diversity of our community and services to address the needs of all who reside here. Let’s not “pave paradise to put up a parking lot.” Let’s re-elect a candidate with a proven commitment to all South Burlington. Cast your vote for Meaghan Emery. Barbara Sirvis South Burlington
For a better future, vote Emery To the Editor: Wisdom is a virtue as is the ability to balance sometimes competing priorities, which are what makes a city councilor exceptional. Both describe Meaghan Emery, who has been an exemplary city councilor and we need her to continue representing the people of South Burlington. There is a long list of accomplishments that Emery has helped South Burlington achieve, from supporting affordable housing and city services and cleaner/greener transportation choices to protecting sensitive natural areas from excessive development. After years of work planning commission, three of five city council members, including Emery and Tim Barritt, are about to enact a truly outstanding set of rules governing residential development. Electing a competing single-issue focused candidate at this time would cause more irreparable harm to wetlands, forests and other current natural resources and turn the clock back on much needed reform. It also would not guarantee more units of affordable housing. That is largely in the hands of property owners and, to a certain
degree, actions of the development review board. So many people have mischaracterized the choices we have in local governance over housing issues. The question we face is not will we build housing; it is how we create the best choices for livable neighborhoods in a variety of settings and price ranges. Developers and real estate agents focus mainly on financially rewarding new large-scale home development. I am not aware of any who have considered work done in other cities to encourage economical and attractive infill and accessory use dwellings in existing low- to moderate-density neighborhoods. We could use more quality, small builders to help serve this need. Alternative types of housing are a needed response to changes that often see more than one generation living in a single-family home that it wasn’t designed to
accommodate. More seniors would also be able to stay in their homes if designed or modified to their needs and allow home sharing that promotes better mental and physical health. I have followed the work of the Vermont Climate Council throughout 2021, and I can say with great assurance that we need a lot more of our government leaders to think toward the future in how we make decisions today. We cannot rely on old regulations and systems that thought only about how to pay today’s bills and about quick financial pay-back. We’ve mortgaged the next generation’s futures with short term thinking. I hope we can all get behind Meaghan Emery’s forward-thinking approach that will help guide us to a healthier and productive future, for us and our amazing city. Donna J. Leban South Burlington
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In committee, from reparations to human composting Legislative Update Rep. John Killacky
Human composting H.244 allows for the natural organic reduction of human remains, a method in which an un-embalmed body is broken down with organic materials like wood chips and straw for several weeks inside of an enclosure until it becomes soil. Washington, Oregon and Colorado permit these kinds of processing facilities. This would provide Vermonters another option to burial and cremation for their permanent disposition choices.
I sit on the House Committee on General, Housing and Military Affairs. There are over 80 bills currently on our wall for consideration. I want to share some of the myriad issues currently under discussion to give readers a scope of the portfolio. Not included are National Guard and housing bills, among many other concerns for upcoming Liquor licensing agendas. John Killacky The committee looked Most proposed bills Vermont House at several bills that recomstay on the wall in of Representatives mend changes in liquor each of the 11 House District 7-3 licensing, reflecting the committees. Legisever-evolving business lating is an iterative environment: process, and bills change dramat• H.591 and H.638 allow ically while in committee. What I in-state manufacturers to mail am sharing are the initial proposproducts directly to consumers. als prior to vetting and amending. • H.613 legally defines “on If taken up in the full House and farm” malt or vinous beverages as passed, bills are then sent to the products in which 51 percent of Senate for consideration. Bills ingredients (other than water) are originating in the Senate follow a grown on the farm that sells them. similar process. • H.684 allows food trucks to The crossover deadline is hold first- and third-class alcoholic March 11 to allow adequate time beverage licenses. for each chamber’s deliberations. Finally, when both House and Senate agree, final bills are sent to Worker protections the governor to sign or veto. Only H.329 amends current laws a fraction of bills introduced each prohibiting discrimination by session become law. Here’s just a establishing a uniform six-year sampling of some of my commitstatute of limitations to file claims; tee considerations: reiterates that a claim is viable
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regardless of whether an employee filed a complaint through the employer’s internal grievance process; adds harassment as an unlawful employment practice; and lowers the severe and pervasive burden for establishing a claim of harassment or discrimination. H.477 clarifies a statute enacted in 2018 that enables employees eligible to take crime victim leave and expands family members who also qualify for leave from work.
Truth, reconciliation, reparations Over the past several weeks, the House Committee on General, Housing and Military Affairs has
taken extensive testimony from advocates, scholars and community members on several bills related to racial and social justice: H.96 establishes a truth and reconciliation process; H.387 establishes a task force to study and develop reparation proposals for the institution of chattel slavery; and H.273 promotes racial and social equity in land and home ownership. We also reviewed several bills related to Indigenous land rights: affirming access to state lands for hunting, trapping, farming and sacred rituals (H.618); identifying, protecting access to and exempting historic and sacred Indigenous sites from taxation (H.668); and
creating a study committee to examine possible mechanisms for the repatriation of traditional Abenaki lands to the tribes. To follow issues being discussed, visit the Vermont General Assembly website and search both House and Senate committees to see agendas and pertinent documents for each day’s discussions. Links are provided to livestream every committee meeting. To learn more about any bill, merely type in the number in the search function. Contact me at jkillacky@leg.state.vt.us if you have trouble accessing links or if you want to share your thoughts.
Lawmakers should put paid medical leave at top of state, national agendas Guest Perspective Emilie Krasnow Looking to the future, we must make paid family and medical leave a reality for Vermont families and caregivers. The positive impact of a comprehensive paid family medical leave bill on the lives of working Vermonters cannot be understated. Vermonters across the state support this because they know it would grow our workforce, attract young people and support working families. Paid family medical leave should be at the top of our federal agenda. Less than half — roughly 42 percent — of workers in the United States have access to paid medical leave. Most people who don’t have paid leave are people that are working in low wage jobs, who have been trying to figure out how to work through this and exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 continues to ravage the country, people are choosing between losing wages to stay home and isolate or go to work sick, exposing others to this virus, so they can continue to put food on their table. Parents whose children need to be out of school are forced to miss work, often without pay. The waitress at your favorite restaurant is choosing between coming back to work too early, or not being able to pay her rent. The domino effect of no federal paid family and medical leave is on full display right now. My peers and I are considered the sandwich generation, defined as those who are caring for both
parents and children. In order to care for both generations, adult children are forced to make difficult choices between saving for their own retirement, funding education or living expenses for their children, and paying for the health care needs of aging parents. Nationally, upwards of 75 percent of all family caregivers are women, who often choose lower paying and less fulfilling jobs so they have the time needed to care for their family. When I was 12 my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During the 15 months of his illness, I watched my mother, sister and brother put their own lives on hold to care for him and his medical and physical needs. In 2018 my mother was diagnosed with cancer. Now, at 36, I am making similar decisions in how I take on caretaking responsibilities and struggling to balance my career and personal ambitions with her needs. Caregiving can be a rewarding way to reconnect with a parent, and I am so grateful I have the flexibility to spend time with her, but for so many this is not an option. A recent study of cancer patients and survivors found that those who had access to paid family and medical leave were better able to complete their treatment and manage symptoms and side effects. As the pandemic has made even clearer, workers should have access to comprehensive paid family and medical leave to care for themselves or a loved one without being faced with these impossible choices. Providing workers with paid leave is proven to improve labor
force participation, earnings and economic security of all workers, especially women. Paid family medical leave could help close the gender gaps that are so costly to the economy in important ways. Research has shown that providing paid parental leave boosts women’s employment. In countries worldwide, mothers who have access to paid leave are more likely to remain in the labor force, work more hours and return to the same job. While we need federal legislation, it’s important that we start here in Vermont. I want to thank Vermont’s Democratic legislators who worked hard on the paid leave bill. We cannot give up this fight. Working Vermonters are counting on us. As policymakers consider the various views about paid family leave, workers continue to face the challenge of balancing demands for work with the necessity to care for family members. Vermonters deserve to have the security of being able to care for a sick family member or care for themselves without fear of losing income or being fired. We need to continue to develop policies that provide opportunities for Vermonters that will in turn strengthen our economy. I am hopeful for the future of Vermont. Vermonters across the state overwhelmingly agree that we all need paid family and medical leave, and it should be a high priority of the Vermont Legislature moving forward as well as at the federal level. Emilie Krasnow lives in South Burlington.
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COMMUNITY Community Notes Rotary donates gift cards to fight food insecurity South Burlington Rotary Club recently delivered 266 Trader Joe’s gift cards to Peter Carmolli, executive director of the South Burlington Food Shelf. Distribution of the $15 gift cards to food shelf clients began Feb. 1. Using funds from the club’s annual budget, individual donations from members, and a grant from the Redducs Foundation, Rotary purchased the gift cards. The Food Shelf serves approximately 500 households, and nearly 80 percent include family members who are employed.
Book donations welcome at South Burlington Library The Friends of the South Burlington Library are currently accepting book donations for its book sale March 31 to April 2. Newly published fiction and non-fiction books are welcome, preferably those books published within the last five years, but not older than 10 years. Non-fiction should be recently published. Historical non-fiction and children’s books for all ages are needed, with an emphasis on books for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Bring donations upstairs to the Friends Bookshop Monday - Saturday between 10:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. or leave them at the circulation desk during other hours. All donated books must be
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Holocaust Memorial hosts antisemitism workshop The Vermont Holocaust Memorial holds its third educators’ workshop, “Analyzing Propagan-
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the role and impact of Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust and enable relevant, critical analysis by their students of contemporary media. The Vermont Holocaust Memorial is the state’s sole voice advocating for Holocaust education as a means of transmitting the tragic lessons of the Holocaust to combat antisemitism and intolerance. “Prejudice and hatred, including antisemitism and other forms of racism, are on the rise in these polarized times,” said Debora Steinerman, president and cofounder. “Just as hatred has found new outlets through the internet, teachers must be provided new tools and insights to help their students take a stand.” Jesse Tannetta, program manager at Echoes & Reflections, will facilitate the workshop. More at holocaustmemorial-vt.org and echoesandreflections.org.
Special Olympics Penguin Plunge returns The Special Olympics Vermont Penguin Plunge will be held Saturday, March 12, 10 a.m.-2p.m. at Burlington Waterfront Park boat launch. The plunge is a unique winter event where participants raise funds to take a dip in Lake Champlain’s icy waters. Now in its 27th year, the Penguin Plunge event supports the Special Olympics Vermont, which serves over 3,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities by using the
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Register for SoBu baseball, softball It’s now time to register for South Burlington Youth Baseball & Softball. South Burlington offers competitive programs for kids ages 5 to12. For information and registration go to bit.ly/3snYY3V or search Facebook. The group has been a chartered Little League in South Burlington
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Student milestones Casey Richards-Bradt of South Burlington was named to the Emerson College fall 2021 dean’s list. Lucas Roberts-Williams of South Burlington was named to Clarkson University’s dean’s list for the fall 2021 semester.
Veronica Chandler of South Burlington was named to the University of Delaware dean’s list for the fall 2021 semester.
South Burlington Rotary holds speech contest South Burlington Rotary Club will hold the club round of Rotary District 7850 high school speech contest on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 7 p.m., location to be determined. Students are asked to prepare and deliver a five-minute speech that relates to the question: “How can your school partner with Rotary
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Above: Carolyn and Jim Gray married in 1951 after growing up together in Newport. Jim died in 2019, but Carolyn said she’s still in love and always feels him with her. Right: Humor is one thing that keeps John Killacky and Lawrence Connolly’s relationship going after 26 years.
Local couples talk falling, staying in love AVALON STYLES-ASHLEY STAFF WRITER
What is love? Maybe it’s about having a best friend to climb mountains, to play board games, to grow old together. Or maybe it’s finding a spark who dances and argues and raises children with you, who fights and grieves and laughs with you. Maybe it’s all those things. Joan Bowker met Dan Close in an elevator on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 1973,
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headed up to the 14th floor of a building on 14th Street in New York City. After 49 years together, the South Burlington residents described falling in love as a process that grew out of friendship. “I saw her standing on the street and I turned around, I said, ‘Man, she looks sharp. She knows what she’s doing. She did,’” Close said, making Bowker laugh. They were both interested in politics, attending meetings (in the building on 14th Street), and after moving in together, their life of climbing mountains and traveling
the world took off. Neither in the beginning or after 49 years did the pair feel compelled to get married. Back then, getting married would have meant Bowker changing her name and she wanted to keep it. “My feeling is if you have a solid relationship, you’ll stay together. If not, it doesn’t matter whether you have a piece of paper. That piece of paper isn’t going to keep you together. It’s the bond that you have and commitment,” Bowker said. The pair often break into laughter when they look at each other. When they think back on how their relationship has changed over the years, they quiet a little, descending into memory. As they’ve aged and the hustle of life and work has slowed, their relationship has grown more mellow, Bowker said. Their recognition of differences and consideration for one another has deepened. “We’re very different kinds of people. Dan’s a dreamer, he’s a writer and a poet, and I’m more of that grounded, realist, type A person,” Bowker said. Carolyn Gray had known her husband Jim since they were born, growing up within two blocks of each other in Newport in the Northeast Kingdom. He gave Gray her first kiss in seventh grade and they started going steady in high school. But oceans and continents soon split them up when Gray’s family moved to Germany where her father was stationed after World War II. She graduated high school there and moved back but by then the sweethearts had broken up, having grown up and grown apart. Of course, by Christmas after her return,
they were back together. “It was just meant to be,” she said, laughing. But not quite yet. Disapproval from Gray’s parents forced the two to break up again, just before Jim told her he was going to propose. Gray then headed to Boston and — guess what happened — she and Jim got back together. “We had been separated a lot and I think that made a difference. We kind of grabbed at happiness a little bit,” she said. This time it stuck: They married after he enlisted during the Korean War, and they later returned to their hometown to work and raise three kids, eventually moving to Florida and then South Burlington where Gray still lives at Harbor Village. Three years ago, Jim died just a few weeks after one of the one of their children died. While Gray’s heart felt extra heavy as Jim’s dementia hindered him from grieving their loss, she added that his illness stopped him from being himself so “it was a blessing for him to go.” After that, she slipped his wedding band onto her left hand where it fit snuggly with her own ring. She’s still in love to this day, she added. “He loved to dance. He was the best dancer in the world. Whenever I feel down or I’m thinking about unpleasant things, I remember being in his arms and dancing. When he would sing off-key in my ear, I would know he was happy,” Gray said. John Killacky and Lawrence Connolly met by chance on a street in Minneapolis, one of them having sworn off dating after tumbling through heartbreak, the other falling in love at first sight. See MODERN LOVE on page 15
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continued from page 14 Both were in their early 40s when they met and described the start of their relationship as different from those they’d encountered as young 20-somethings. In many ways they had a common history, Killacky, a South Burlington representative, said, having to navigate the world as gay men and losing many friends to the AIDS epidemic. “I don’t mean to overdramatize it, but it is a little bit like people who had been in a war together,” he recalled, adding that for him, finding Connolly felt like finding “home.” Only a year later in 1996, the pair met their first major trial: Killacky underwent surgery to remove a tumor that left him paralyzed from the neck down. “The miraculous thing is that, first we survived but we also became one in that process,” Killacky said. He recalled one moment in the hospital when he realized he was choking on his own blood and started to lose consciousness. “Sometime later I awoke back in intensive care with Larry pounding on my chest kind of screaming, ‘Don’t you die on me,’” he said. “His life became very disrupted with all this, but he stayed. So, when I say we became one, I mean that in so many ways.” Since gay marriage wasn’t yet legalized, Connolly was forced to carry a piece of paper proclaiming him as Killacky’s power of attorney, should anything happen, literally in his back pocket. They later married in 2008 in a San
Francisco courthouse alongside 40 other couples in tuxedos, overalls and dresses. The two laugh often, teasing each other about aging and “crossing the Twilight bridge,” before returning to gaze at one other as they reflect on 26 years together. Having a sense of humor, and a little sense of the ridiculous, is essential to staying together, both agreed, especially with so much of life out of your control.
Learning to assume good intentions was another tool Connolly said has been crucial to growing in love. “We’ve done enough that I can even be proud of the way that I have loved and am loving. Not every day,” he said laughing. “Because I understand it as an ongoing activity that continues to unfold, I’m enjoying the understanding that love is not something like — it is or it isn’t. It’s something you commit to.”
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continued from page 1 behavior during the 6-minute hearing. The 15-page police affidavit paints a picture of rampant drug use at the Erdmann house and occupants not calling for help when at least two people had serious overdoses. In one case, one of Erdmann’s sons said he took a cellphone picture of his best friend passed out with the idea of showing it to him later. The friend, Brian A. Miller, 29, died about an hour later during the June 29 incident, court records show. Det. Cpl. Sarah Superneau outlined how Bruce Erdmann provided a large line of cocaine on March 12, 2021, to the family’s 59-year-old housekeeper. The Shelburne woman ingested it and a few minutes later passed out for four hours without Erdmann and his wife, Ellen, calling 911 for medical assistance, Superneau reported. Ellen K. Erdmann, 62, died at the house June 28 from acute fentanyl intoxication, according to her death certificate. Judge Elizabeth Novotny questioned why the prosecution was not seeking court-imposed conditions of release that would include prohibiting Erdmann from having contact with the Shelburne house cleaner, her daughter and two other women who are also witnesses. While a deputy prosecutor, who was filling in at the arraignment, looked at the case file for an answer, Erdmann’s defense lawyer, Ian Carlton said his client had no objection to the court ordering him to have no contact with the
four women. Novotny then added a second condition that Erdmann not buy, use or possess any regulated drugs without a legal prescription while the criminal prosecution is pending. She suggested a third condition for a substance abuse assessment, but Carlton reported Erdmann authorized him to disclose the defendant was enrolled in a daily methadone clinic through the Howard Center. It was unclear why George’s office did not pursue the more serious felony drug charges presented by city police. George did not respond to inquiries about the case. George has declined certain types of drug cases, and since at least 2017 said she favors safe injection sites to allow street narcotic users to get clean needles and supervision. Drugs are not provided by the state, but rather users supply their own under such a plan. Novotny also asked if Erdmann was out on conditions from any federal case. Chief deputy state’s attorney Sally Adams said she was unaware of where the U.S. Attorney’s Office stood with the case. “I know for a fact there is no federal prosecution pending,” Carlton said. “I don’t know whether there is any investigation going on.” A South Burlington detective assigned to the Vermont Drug Task Force reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has an investigation with Erdmann as a person of interest for getting
significant prescription medications through the mail from a California company, Superneau wrote.
The charges South Burlington Police responded to the Erdman house for two fatal overdoses on two consecutive days — June 28 and 29, 2021. Ellen Erdmann died June 28, but Bruce Erdmann never sought an initial autopsy for his wife apparently because she had ongoing medical concerns, police said. The next day, Brian Miller, 29, overdosed while visiting the house to offer condolences to his friend Devin Erdmann, 29, police said. It was during that case that the medical examiner ordered Ellen Erdmann’s body seized from the Ready Funeral Home for an autopsy and learned about her overdose, police said. While at the Erdmann home June 29, police obtained a search warrant and seized multiple containers of various drugs, mostly in Bruce Erdmann’s bedroom and office, Superneau said. It was that day that police also learned about the photograph of Miller taken by Devin Erdmann with his cellphone, Superneau wrote. Miller was passed out and propped against the kitchen wall with his head slumped forward, the public court affidavit stated. Devin Erdmann told police he took the picture so Miller could “see how stupid he looked when he woke up,” Superneau wrote. Instead, he was dead an hour later. At least eight containers with various drugs believed belonging to Bruce Erdmann were seized, Superneau wrote. Four containers belonging to his wife also were confiscated, police said.
March overdose The Shelburne housekeeper in March “was not provided any medical attention after she lost consciousness. When she woke up hours later, she drove herself home where she had a seizure and was subsequently transported to the hospital,” Superneau wrote. Hospital lab tests showed the woman had cocaine, along with benzodiazepine and cannabinoids in her system, police said. One witness reported that Bruce Erdmann had been dealing drugs out of his house and his business, police said. The witness said she went out to dinner with Ellen Erdmann the day after the overdose by house cleaner and she described what happened, court records show. The witness reported Ellen Erdmann said the cleaning woman collapsed on the bathroom floor and Bruce Erdmann picked her up and put her on a bed, but never called for help because he did not want police involved, Superneau said. The victim never contacted police after the incident and was hesitant even when reached by Superneau after two people reported concerns about what happened to her. The overdose happened shortly after the victim arrived at the Erdmann home about 10 a.m. and it was about 3 p.m. when she came around, police said. She drove herself home, went to bed, but had reactions and later thought she had multiple “heart attacks” before she was taken to the hospital. The woman spent months in the intensive care unit and was not expected to survive, according to her daughter. The police affidavit includes a series of text messages, including
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A storyteller evolves to help others record their time person at the library. One day while at the Pierson someone admired her voice and Ask Mary Catherine Jones suggested she study with Such A to say “wander alarm activated” Voice in South Burlington, founded by Dan Levine, also of Shelseveral times. Each time she says it will be burne. Such A Voice trains people bit different than the time before, in voiceover, how to make demos but in every version her voice is and other tricks of the talking for comforting but serious, immediate- recording trade. “I looked into it, pursued it and ly demanding attention while not engendering panic — the perfect came out with a great demo,” Jones tone for a dementia ward security said. “Then I had to actually market myself and find work.” system. For years she worked for Jones said recording those three words over and over were one Shadow Productions in Burlington. of her weirdest experiences as a Much of that work was e-learning, creating online training courses voiceover artist. But possibly even weirder was for both national and local clients. E-learning continues to the time she had to burp be one of Jones’ main on cue for an audiofocuses. book recording of the But now she does it children’s book “Joyce at her home studio on of Westerfloyce: The Mt. Philo Road instead Story of the Tiny Little of Burlington, because in Girl with the Tiny Little January 2020 she bought Voice.” Shadow Productions and For 13 years Jones is folding it into Voice has been in the voiceOver Vermont. over business, but recentMary Catherine Jones Jones thinks it’s ly much of her time has important to use a profesbeen spent on the other sional to record the narraside of the mic, recording and producing other people tion of online courses. “Professional courses need reading. Jones owns Voice Over professional narration,” she said. Vermont, a recording studio she “We’ve all sat through some of those training courses with runs from her home in Shelburne. During the last two years she’s non-professional narration. They recorded around 20 audiobooks, can be horrible because you’re some narrated by the authors them- hearing the cat in the background or somebody just droning on and on.” selves and some by others. She is also doing more audioHer work as a voice-over artist evolved from time 15 years ago book work. Should an author read their own spent as the storytime lady at the Pierson Library in Shelburne and work for the narration of an audio book? Jones said it depends on the earlier in other locales. She fell into library story telling kind of book. Memoirs, poetry, books on a one day before moving to Shelburne. As she was dropping off specific expertise like a biography, her 4-year-old at school, a friend a history book “or the latest how who was the storyteller at the West to slim down in 30 days or rock Lebanon, N.H., library, stopped your midlife,” Jones said. “The first Jones to tell her in a husky, barely person I would look to would be the audible whisper, “I can’t talk. Can author.” Authors of whodunits or fantayou come and read?” Jones agreed to come to the sy novels probably aren’t the best rescue. Sort of as an afterthought, choice to narrate a novel. “That she grabbed a couple of puppets requires a different skill set, often at her home and took them to the being able to create voices and set library. During her storytelling stages,” she said. “It’s not just — get into a booth, debut, she held up the puppet of the little old lady who swallowed close the door and talk. It’s a lot of a fly, getting the assembled kids to work,” Jones said. Voice Over Vermont has recordsing with her as the little old lady progressed from gulping down ed several books by Hinesburg author Bill Schubart. Some books insects to scarfing large mammals. Storytelling and singing became he recorded himself and with some books the narration was outsourced. her shtick. “He has a storyteller’s voice, “It was so much fun,” Jones said. “Twenty years later, I final- and he also writes in a style that is ly hung up the old lady and her conducive for him doing the reading,” Jones said. animals.” The exception was Schubart’s After she and her family moved to Shelburne, she became the story- books with lots of dialogue. Then SCOOTER MACMILLAN STAFF WRITER
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they’ve generally had someone else do the narration for those. One hour of recording takes at least four hours of production work, Jones said, and a 50,000-word book will take at least five weeks. Linda McGinnis, of South Burlington, is someone Jones often calls on when she’s looking for a voiceover artist. McGinnis said one of the most challenging parts of voice-over
work comes when a novel has 15-20 characters who are having conversations with each other. “You want to give each character their own personality and their own voice,” McGinnis said. “I rehearse them in advance and record them on my phone, so if I come to a place in a book where we hear from a character whose voice we haven’t heard for several chapters, I will listen to it to remember
how they sound.” Also challenging is that how a voice changes day to day. She said Jones has a great ear for these changes and will give a voice-over artist exercises to warm up their voice to keep it consistent. Jones said one of the biggest obstacles in recording these artists’ voices is lawnmowers. “I know all my neighbors’ mowing schedules,” she said.
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Hedgerows play key roles in landscapes Connect the Dots Jane Dorney Once the leaves were off the trees, I knew it was time to head out to my favorite high meadow to cut a few twigs of winterberry. Its bright red berries add some winter cheer to my kitchen table and my annual trip is a chance to see what’s happening in the hedgerow along the way. I headed up through the woods, crossed the hayfield, then started toward the hedgerow. The monochromatic hayfield underfoot contrasted with the hedgerow’s eclectic variety of young leafless brown and gray trees and shrubs, woven together with climbing vines. As I neared the hedgerow, I could see something much older peeking through the gaps in the thick vegetation — a broad stone wall. On the far side of the wall was an old pasture. In this group of features I could read parts of three centuries of shifting land uses that enriched my journey. The tangle of hedgerow plants dominated the foreground, but the stone wall was the critical feature that anchored the interwoven stories. Sections of this stone wall were probably 200 years old, since this farm had been operating in the early 1800s. Typically, 19th-century walls were built around the edges of the
cultivated fields using the stones heaved up out of the soil by the winter frost. Farmers moved the stones before their yearly plowing, so they didn’t harm their plow blades. The three-foot-tall wall was a barrier to my movements, so it was easy for me to remember their original role — they kept the farm animals out of the cultivated fields. The hedgerow plants were much younger than the wall. A lone, tall elm was probably the oldest. In the early farming days, the edge of the field along the wall was kept clean of seedling trees or shrubs by hand cutting or burning. This meant the wall could be repaired as needed and made it easier for farmers to keep an eye on crops and livestock. But in the 20th century, this elm may have been intentionally left to create some shade for the cows in the pasture. The rest of the trees along the wall were a young mix of species, including birches, poplars, red maples and a volunteer apple. Most of them were pressed against the stone wall in the narrow zone the haying equipment couldn’t reach. As the 20th century progressed, the maintenance of walls was let go. The trees that sprouted were mostly wind dispersed species, but the deer prints and chewed fruit I saw near the volunteer apple tree reminded me that some of the
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trees were spread by mammals. I even had to step over the occasional coyote or fox scat. Shrubs and vines filled in between the trees and exerted their varied personalities. The brambles had already been picked clean by birds, but many other shrubs brought splashes of color with their vivid tones of late season berries contrasting with the neutral tones of leafless branches. Red rose hips held onto the
tips of their twigs, dark blue wild grape bunches cascaded over other plants and nannyberry twigs sagged with their pendulous heads of indigo berries. A chipmunk with bulging cheeks poked its head up between some stones and I gave it a nod, realizing its predecessors may have brought the original shrubs’ seeds it was enjoying now. I kept walking along the wall toward the top of the high meadow where the woods began.
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Here were the winterberry shrubs in their full glory. Winterberries are Vermont’s only native, deciduous holly. I cut a few berry-loaded twigs to take home, then turned to enjoy the view below. All the features were laid out together: the hayfield, the hedgerow and the old pasture in the foreground, and the patches of woods below and above. I realized that though the stone wall anchored the scene before me, the role it played had dramatically shifted through time. Instead of being an exclusionary barrier to farm animals, it had become an animal travel corridor providing food and cover. What I saw before me resonated with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s recent announcement that it was adding hedgerows to digital maps used for conservation planning. Research is showing that many animals use hedgerows as corridors to move between large blocks of intact forests, and researchers expect hedgerows to play an increasingly key role in the migration of animals as they adapt to climate change. It gave me a lot to think about as I wended my way home with my winterberry twigs in hand, soon to be placed in a vase on my kitchen table and enjoyed for months to come. Jane Dorney is a consulting geographer who does research and education projects to help people understand why the Vermont landscape looks like it does. See more at janedorney. com.
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SPORTS Taylor posts 19 in win over Burr and Burton LAUREN READ CORRESPONDENT
Track and field The South Burlington boys’ and girls’ indoor track and field teams headed to the University of Vermont Saturday, Feb. 5, for the Vermont state championship, and just missed out on two team titles. Both the Wolves teams came in second place, falling to Essex. On the girls’ side, Minelle Sarfo-Adu was a top finisher, taking home the top spot in the long jump, the triple jump and the 55-meter hurdles. Other top finishers for the South Burlington girls included Regina O’Leary, who was second in the triple jump, Nora Clear, who finished fourth in the high jump, and Samantha Chittenden, who placed fifth in the high jump. Rama Al Namee was fifth in the long jump and fourth in the triple jump, while Cassie Scarpa was sixth in the long jump. On the boys’ side, Kimario Lee came in second in the 55-meter dash, Mathias Nevin finished fifth in the 600 and
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Girls’ hockey South Burlington 3, Champlain Valley-Mount Mansfield 2 (OT): Sofia Richland scored in overtime to lift South Burlington to a win over the Champlain Valley-Mount Mansfield co-op team Saturday. Sabrina Brunet had two goals and one assist to lead the Wolves offense, while Richland had the game winner and an assist. Hope Brunet and Ava Hershberg each had a helper for South Burlington. With the win, the Wolves move to 4-9.
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CROSSWORD
ARIES
LEO
March 21 - April 20 Aries, you may be feeling romantic lately, but there will be little time to act upon it. Bide your time for a week or two until you can spend time with a special someone.
TAURUS
July 23 - Aug. 23 Leo, bring people together is your specialty. Put your talents to use and encourage friends and family to get together for some fun. The party will be welcomed by all.
VIRGO
April 21 - May 21 Taurus, craft an eclectic guest list for an upcoming party you’re hosting. The more points of view you can hear, the more engaging the event will be.
GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Gemini, a loved one needs you and you’re the right person for the job. Find a way you can lend a hand. Your efforts won’t go unnoticed and pitching in will prove its own reward.
CANCER
Aug. 24 - Sept. 22 Someone in your life could be at a crossroads, Virgo. Lend an open ear if he or she needs to talk. Your support will be well-received and recriprocated when the time comes.
LIBRA Sept. 23 - Oct. 23 Libra, your talents will be in high demand in the days and weeks ahead. Take things one task at a time and embrace the responsibility and trust.
SCORPIO
June 22 - July 22 Cancer, you may need to tighten the purse strings in the days ahead. Limit purchases only to the necessities for the next few weeks until you feel more secure.
Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 Scorpio, you usually are outgoing, but this week you may feel shy and reserved. Stick closer to home if you’re not feeling the social scene right now.
SUDOKU Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
SAGITTARIUS Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 Sagittarius, now is the time to spread a little good cheer. Let others know how much you care and encourage them to do the same. This will have a positive effect on everyone’s mood.
CAPRICORN Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 Activities that have you working in a group go as planned, Capricorn. Your willingness to work with others and set a good example is highly valued.
AQUARIUS Jan. 21 - Feb. 18 Aquarius, a brief separation from someone special in your life has you feeling melancholy. Surround yourself with friends to brighten your mood as much as possible.
PISCES Feb. 19 - March 20 Treat yourself to a meal at a favorite restaurant or go on a little retail therapy spree. You deserve a little pampering.
CLUES ACROSS 1. One point east of due south 4. City in Maine 10. Inquire too closely 11. Make dirty 12. Small Greek island 14. Bitterly regret 15. Millisecond 16. __ the ante 18. Without value 22. Eurasian ryegrass 23. Authentic 24. Having a mournful quality 26. Not out 27. Salvador __, Spanish artist 28. Cargo (abbr.) 30. This (Spanish) 31. Sino-Soviet block (abbr.) 34. Slang for trucks with trailers 36. Helps you hear 37. Steer a boat 39. British School 40. Genus of olive
41. Computer term (abbr.) 42. Horse gear 48. Give off 50. A type of salt 51. Exposing human vice or folly to ridicule 52. One who watches birds 53. Sailboat 54. A major division of geological time 55. Sodium 56. American state 58. Soak in water 59. Thin decorative covering of fine wood 60. Affirmative
7. A way to address 8. Obstruct 9. Atomic number 45 12. Ill-mannered 13. Opaque gem 17. Indicates before 19. Remove 20. Populous Argentine city 21. More cunning 25. Rich dessert 29. Payment (abbr.) 31. Footwear 32. Famed Alabama city 33. Sheep’s cry 35. Arrogance 38. Clergical vestment 41. Serving no practical CLUES DOWN purpose 1. One of the four seasons 43. An evening party 2. Its sultan is famous 44. Print errors 3. A lens for correcting 45. Not good defective vision in one 46. Egyptian Sun god eye 47. Industrial German city 4. College degree 49. Scottish island 5. Soldiers need it 56. Early multimedia 6. Japanese car 57. Atomic number 18 manufacturer
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